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STATE OF KENTUCKY 



In Force July 1, 
1912 



FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 

J. QUINCY WARD, 

Executive Agent 

Frankfort, - - Kentucky 



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CHAPTER 35. 



AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF GAME 
AND FISH. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 

§ 1. Game and Fish Commission. A Game 
and Fish Commission is hereby created; said 
Game and Fish Commission shall have per- 
petual succession with power to make and 
use a corporate seal, with power to alter the 
same; to adopt by-lav/s, rules and regulation 
for the government of its members, agents 
and employes, provided such hy-laws shall not 
conflict with the Constitution of Kentucky. 
Said Commission shall consist of four mem- 
bers, who shall serve without compensation, 
except for necessary expenses to be paid upon 
an itemized statement thereof, duly audited by 
said Commission, and shall have an office in 
the Capitol and be supplied with suitable sta- 
tionery, blanks and postage for the transac- 
tion of its business. 

§ 2. Appointment and Term--Residence — 
Party Affiliations — Meetings. Within thirty 
days after this act becomes a law, the Govern- 
or shall appoint said four Commissioners, 
two of whom shall serve for two years, and 
two for four years, and until their successors 



shall be appointed and qualified; and two 
members shall be appointed in like manner 
every two years thereafter to serve for a term 
of four years each; and, whenever a vacancy 
or vacancies occur by death, resignation, re- 
moval from the county, operation of law, or 
otherwise, the Governor shall, in like manner, 
immediately appoint some competent person 
or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies. 
The person or persons so appointed shall hold 
office for the unexpired term, provided, that 
no two members shall be residents of any one 
county, and that not more than two members 
of said Commission shall belong to the same 
political party. 

Said Game and Fish Commission shall meet 
quarterly at its office, and as much oftener as 
may be necessary. Provided, however, it shall 
hold its first meeting within thirty days after 
its appointment. 

§ 3. General Powers and Duties. Said 
Game and Fish Commission shall enforce the 
laws of this State involving the protection, 
preservation and propagation of all game 
birds, game animals, fish and song and insec- 
tivorous birds and animals. Said Game and 
Fish Commission shall have charge of: 

1. The propagation, preservation and pro- 
tection of such varieties of game birds, game 
animals, fish, and song and insectivorous birds 
and animals as they shall deem to be of pub- 
lic value, 

2. The collection and diffusion of such sta- 



tistics and information as shall be germane 
to tlie purpose of this act. 

3. The receiving from the United States 
Government or other person, and the gather- 
ing, purchase and distribution to the waters, 
forests, fields, parks and preserves of this 
State, of all birds, animals, fish, spawn or fry 
for public distribution. 

4. The seizure and disposition of all game 
birds, game animals and fish, either taken, 
killed, transported or possessed contrary to 
law, of all dogs, guns, seines, nets, boats, 
lights, or other instrumentalities unlawfully 
used or held with intent to use, in pursuing, 
taking, attempting to take, concealing or dis- 
posing of the same. 

5. The taking of fish from the public 
waters of the State for the propagation and 
stocking of other waters therein. And the tak- 
ing of birds and animals from the forests, 
fields, parks and preserves of the State for the 
propagation and stocking of other forests, 
fields, parks and preserves therein. 

6. The construction, control and manage- 
ment of all State fish hatcheries and game 
preserves, including the control of grounds 
and buildings owned, leased or in any way 
acquired for such purpose. 

§ 4. Biennial Report of Commission of 
Game and Fish. In the month of October, in 
the year 1913, and every two years thereafter, 
the Game and Fish Commission shall make a 
report to the Governor showing the ofiicial 



business transacted by the Commission. Such 
report shall show the number of hunter's 
licenses issued, together with all fees collect- 
ed. It shall show what moneys have been re- 
ceived by the Game and Fish Commission 
from fees and other sources. It shall show the 
number of wardens and other persons em- 
ployed, and shall give all necessary informa- 
tion concerning the affairs of the Game and 
Fish Commission. Such report shall be pub- 
lished in pamphlet form. 

§ 5. Executive Agent. Within thirty days 
after the appointment of the "Game and Fish 
Commission the Governor shall appoint an 
executive agent of said Game and Fish Com- 
mission, who shall devote all of his time to 
the discharge of his duties, and shall receive 
compensation therefor, to be fixed by said 
Game and Fish Commission, not exceeding 
twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per 
year. He shall act as such executive agent 
for a term of four years and be subject to the 
directions of s'aid Game and Fish Commission. 
When the said Commission is not in session, 
he is hereby authorized to exercise in its 
name, all the rights, powers and authority 
vested in gaid Commission by this act. Before 
entering upon the discharge of his duties he 
shall give a bond to the State of Kentucky, 
with sureties or security to be approved by 
said Commission, in the penal sum of five 
thousand ($5,000) dollars, conditioned for the 
faithful dis'charge of his duties and accounting 



of all State property coming into his hands, 
which bond shall be filed with the Secretary 
of State. 

§ 6. Employes. The Game and Fish Com- 
missioners may appoint and remove at pleas- 
ure a sufficient number of game w^ardens, 
whose jurisdiction shall be coextensive with 
the State, other persons', and office assistants, 
as may be necessary to carry out the purposes 
of this act, and fix their periods of service and 
compensation. 

§ 7. Possession and Shipment of Birds, 
Fieh and Animals'. Said Game and Fish Com- 
mission is hereby empowered and authorized 
to have in their possession at any time, ship 
or transport, anywhere in the State, for the 
purpose of propagation or conservation any 
and all kinds of fish, birds and animals, 

§ 8. Purchase, Lease, Donation and Con- 
demnation of Land and Water. Said Com- 
mission is hereby empowered and authorized 
to acquire in the name of the Commonwealth 
of Kentucky by purchase, lease, donation, de- 
vise or otherwise, either land or water, or both 
for the purpose of protecting, preserving or 
propagating such varieties of game birds, 
game animals or fish as said Commission shall 
deem to be of public value. If said Commis- 
sion be unable to agree with the owner or 
owners or such lands or water as to its value, 
or to purchase the same, it may proceed in 
the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 
in any court having jurisdiction, to condemn 



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such land or water in the same manner as' pro- 
vided by law in the condemnation of land for 
railroad purposes. Real estate or water acquir- 
ed by purchase, lease or condemnation shall be 
paid for out of moneys appropriated for said 
purposes by said Commission out of the fish 
and game protection fund, or which have been 
appropriated for such purposes by the Legis- 
lature or which may have been received from 
any other source for such purposes. 

§ 9. Fish Hatcheries and Game Preserves. 
Said Commission may establish, operate, con- 
duct and maintain fish hatcheries and game 
preserves on any lands or waters acquired by 
it, and may employ and appoint such persons 
and assistants at such salaries and for such 
time as it may deem necessary to operate, 
conduct and care for them, any of whom may 
be removed at the pleasure of said Commis- 
sion. 

§ 10. Appropriations. The said Commission 
may appropriate annually not exceeding ten 
per cent of the Fish and Game Protection 
Fund for that year, for the purpose of estab- 
lishing, erecting, conducting and maintaining 
fish hatcheries and game preserves, and pay- 
ing for land, improvements and waters ac- 
quired for such purposes by purchase, lease or 
condemnation. 

§ 11. Sale of Land and Water. Said Com- 
mission may, with the consent of the Govern- 
or, when it regards the same to be to the 
best interests of the State, sell and convey 



any real estate or building or waters owned 
or used for the purpose of protecting, preserv- 
ing or propagating fish, birds or animals; but 
the proceeds arising from such sales may be 
reinvested jn other real estate or buildings or 
water for the protecting, preserving or pro- 
pagating of fish, birds or animals. 

§ 12. Contracts. The Commission, with 
the consent of the Governor, may enter into 
any contract or agreement with the United 
States' Government or any Department or 
Bureau thereof, or with any person or persons 
in regard to the preservation, protection or 
propagation of fish, game, birds or animals, it 
may deem to the advantage of the State to 
enter into. 

§ 13. Powers and Duties of Wardens. It 
shall be the duty of fish and game wardens 
and such other persons s'o appointed by the 
Commission of game and fish, sheriffs and 
their deputies, constables and their deputies, 
and all peace officers, to enforce within this 
State all laws relating to the protection, pre- 
servation or propagation of fish, birds or 
game. They may arrest on sight and without 
warrant any person detected by them in the 
act of violating any such laws; they shall 
have the same right as sheriff to require aid 
in arresting -without process any person found 
by them in the act of violating any of said 
laws; and they shall have authority to seize 
without process any birds, fish, animals or 
game found in the possession of any such per- 



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sons, together with all dogs, guns, seines', nets, 
traps, boats, lights or other instrumentalities 
or devices with which the same were taken or 
killed, or wliich were being used or held with 
intent to use in pursuing, taking, attempting 
to take, concealing or disposing of the same, 
and forthwith convey said offender before a 
court or magistrate having jurisdiction of the 
offense, and such court or magistrate upon 
the filing of the complaint by such warden or 
other person or officer, shall proceed speedily 
to try and determine the truth of the charge, 
and if said charge is found to be true, said 
court or magistrate shall enter an order de- 
claring said birds, game, animals, fish, dogs, 
guns, seines, nets, traps, boats, lights or other 
instrumentalities or devices so seized to be 
contraband, and directing them to be deliver- 
ed to the Commission of Game and Fish to 
be disposed of. 

§ 14. Contraband Game, Seizure and 
Search. Any bird, animal, fish, game, or any 
part thereof, caught, killed, shipped or had in 
possession or under control, contrary to any 
of the provisions of this act, or of any other 
law of this State relating to fish or game, is 
hereby declared to be contraband. The Com- 
mission of Fish and Game, all game wardens, 
and all other persons so appointed by said 
Commission, sheriffs and their deputies, con- 
stables and their deputies', and peace officers, 
shall seize and take possession of any and all 
birds, game, fish, or animals, or any part 



thereof, which have been caught, taken, killed 
or had in possession, or under control or 
shipped, contrary . to any of the provisions of 
this act or any otheir law of this State relating 
to fisli or game. Any court having jurisdiction 
may, upon complaint showing probable cause 
for believing that any bird, fish, game or ani- 
mal, or any part thereof, caught, taken, killed, 
or had in possession, or under control, by any 
pers'on, or shipped, or transported contrary to 
any of the provisions of thi^ act or of any law 
of this State relating to fish or game, is con- 
cealed or illegally kept in any building, car or 
receptacle, issue a search warrant and cause 
a seaT'ch to be made in any such place for any 
such bird, fish, game or animal, or any part 
thereof, and may cause any building, enclos- 
ure or car to be entered, and any apartment, 
chest, box, locker, crate, basket, package, or 
any other receptacle whatever, to be broken, 
opened and the contents thereof examined. All 
such officers taking or seizing any such birds, 
animals, game, or fish, or any part thereof, 
shall at once report all the facts attending 
the same to the Game and Fish Commis'sion, 

§ 15. Contraband Devices. All nets, seines, 
lanterns, snares, devices, contrivances, mate- 
rials, while in use, or had or maintained, for 
the purpose of catching, taking or killing or 
attracting or deceiving any bird, animal, game 
or fish, contrary to any provisions of the act, 
or of any law of this State relating to fish and 
game, within the State, or upon or in the 



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boundary waters thereof, including fish houses, 
inclosures, or other sheltering structures or 
appliances, erected or maintained upon the 
ice or in any waters, or on the shores of any 
lake, pond, or stream, is hereby declared to 
be and is' a public nuisance. The Commission- 
ers of Fish and Game, all game wardens, and 
all other persons so appointed by said Com- 
mission, sheriffs and their deputies, constables 
and their deputies, and peace officers, shall, 
without warrant or process, take, seize, abate, 
and destroy any and all of the same while be- 
ing used, had or maintained for such purpose, 
and no liability therefor shall be incurred by 
any person. 

§ 16. Sale of Contraband. The Game and 
Fish Commission is hereby authorized to sell 
to residents of this State, at the highest mar- 
ket price obtainable therefor, all furs, fish, 
game, game animals, birds, guns, dogs and 
boats, which shall come to their possession as 
contraband under the order of any court or 
magistrate, or which has been seized under 
this act, and declared to be contraband by this 
act or any other law of this State relating to 
fish or game. One-half of the net proceeds of 
sale shall be paid to the warden, or other per- 
son appointed by said Commission, sheriff or 
his deputy, constable or his deputy, or peace 
officer, who seized said article of contraband, 
and the other half of such proceeds thereof 
shall be turned into the State Treasury and 
credited to the Game and Fish Protection 



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Fund. A record of such sales', including the 
name of the purchaser and the price paid, 
shall be kept by the Commission. Said Com- 
mission shall, before selling, tag or mark the 
same in a manner determined by it and said 
Commission shall destroy all nets, seines, 
traps, lights and other devices and instrumen- 
talities which may come to its possession as 
contraband under the order of any court or 
magistrate, or which hag been seized under 
this act, or any other law of this State relat- 
ing to fish or game, and declared to- be contra- 
band by. this act, or by any other law of this 
State relating to fish or game. 

§ 17. Resale. Fish, game, game animals, 
and birds, or any part thereof, sold pursuant 
to the terms of the foregoing section, shall 
not be resold, offered for sale, or held for the 
purpose of sale, or otherwise disposed of, to 
any other person by said purchaser. Said fish, 
game, game animals and birds shall not be 
bought or taken into possession by any other 
person than the purchaser from the Commis- 
sion. 

§ 18. Other Officials — Attorney. The County 
Attorneys, Commonwealth's Attorneys, sher- 
iffs and their deputies, constables and their 
deputies, and other peace officers, are hereby 
required, and it is made their duty, to enforce 
the provisions of this act and of all laws of 
this State relating to fish or game; and the 
Commission of Game and Fish may employ an 
attorney or attorneys to perform such legal 



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services as said Commission may require. He 
shall appear for said Commission in all civil 
actions in which it or any of its officers or em* 
ployes or appointees or wardens may- be in- 
terested officially and may assist the county 
attorney or Commonwealth's Attorney in the 
prosecution of criminal actions arising under 
this act, or under any law of this State relat« 
ing to fish or game, and when for any reason 
the county attorney or Commonwealth's At- 
torney does not prosecute such criminal ac- 
tions, he rtiay conduct such prosecution on 
the part of the State with the same authority 
as the county attorney, or the Commonwealth's 
Attorney. The compensation to be paid said 
attorney shall be fixed by the Commission 
and paid out of the funds provided for the en 
forcement of this act. 

§ 19. Execution of Writs. The executive 
agent of said Commission, all members there- 
of, and wardens and persons' appointed by 
said Commission shall have full power and 
authority to serve and execute all warrants 
and processes of law issued by the court en- 
forcing the provisions of this act, or of any 
other law of this State relating to the preser- 
vation, protection or propagation of game or 
fish anywhere in the State of Kentucky in the 
same manner as any constable or sheriff may 
execute the same and for the purpose of en- 
forcing the provisions of this act they may 
call to their aid any sheriff, deputy sheriff, 
constable, deputy constable, peace officer or 



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any other person and it shall be the duty of 
all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, deputy 
constables, peace officers, and other persons 
when called upon to enforce and aid in the 
enforcing of the provisions of this act. 

§ 20. Bonds of Wardens— Conditions of. 
Before entering upon the discharge of their of- 
ficial duties, each game and fish warden shall 
give bond in the sum of five hundred dollars 
($500.00) payable to tiie State of Kentucky 
with two or more sureties to be approved by 
the Fish and Game Commission, and filed in 
the office of the Secretary of State, conditioned 
that he will truly account for and legally apply 
all money and property which may come into 
his hands in his official capacity, and that he 
will faithfully perform all of the duties en- 
joined upon him by law. 

§ 21. Terms Defined — Agency No Excuse. 
The word sell and sale as used in this act 
shall be construed as meaning any sale of or 
offering to sell or having in possession with 
intent to sell, use or dispose of the same con- 
trary to law. The word person shall be deem- 
ed to include partnerships, associations and 
incorporations and no violation of any pro- 
vision of this act or any other law of this 
State relating to fish or game shall be excused 
for the reason that the prohibited act was 
done as the agent or employee of another. Nor 
that it shall be committed by or through an 
agent or employes of the person charged. 
The word possession shall be deemed to in- 



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elude both actual and constructive possession 
as well as the control of the article referred 
to. 

§ 22. Blanks and Other Printed Matter 
Provided. The blanks and other printed mat- 
ter necessary to carry out the provisions of 
this act and of the game laws, upon the ap- 
proval of the Governor, shall be printed under 
the direction of the Commission, and shall be 
paid for in like manner and upon the same 
terms as other public printing. This expense 
shall be charged to the Game and Fish Pro- 
tection Fund. 

§ 23. License — Contests of. All licenses 
shall be dated when issued and shall also au- 
thorize the person named and described there- 
in to hunt during the calendar year and then 
only within the regulations and restrictions 
provided by law. All hunting licenses shall be 
numbered consecutively at the time they are 
printed and the non-resident and resident 
blanks shall be furnished by the Game and 
Fish Commission to the county clerks of the 
various counties. 

§ 24. Resident's License — How Obtained, 
Any person who has been a bona fide resident 
of this State for one year then past, may pro- 
cure a hunter's license for himself or herself by 
filing his or her affidavit with the county clerk 
of the county in which he or she resides, stat- 
ing his or her age, place of residence, postoffice 
address, height, color, color of his or her eyes 
and hair, and the fact whether he or she can 



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write his or her name, and by paying to the said 
county clerk the sum of one dollar ($1.00) 
which license shall entitle him or her to hunt 
in all counties of this State, but nothing here- 
in contained shall be construed as repealing 
the present law requiring every hunter to ob- 
tain the written permission of the landowner 
to hunt on his premises. 

§ 25. Non-Resident or Alien Hunter's Li- 
cense — How Obtained. Any non-resident or 
alien of this State or person^^ho has not been 
a resident of this State for one year may pro- 
cure a license for hunting by filing his or her 
affidavit with the county clerk of any county 
in this State, stating his or her age, place of 
residence, postoffice address', height, color, 
color of his or her eyes, and hair, and the fact 
whether he or she can write his or her name, 
and by paying to said county clerk the sum of 
fifteen ($15.00) dollars, which license shall en- 
title him or her to hunt in all the counties of 
this State, after receiving the permiss'ion of 
the owner or agent of the land. 

§ 26. County Clerks Issue Hunting License. 
The county clerk shall issue all hunting 
licenses, resident and non-resident, under the 
seal of his office, to all persons complying with 
the provisions of this act, and shall sign the 
same and shall require the person to whom 
the license is issued to sign his or her name 
on the margin thereof. He shall keep a correct 
and complete record of all licenses issued in a 
book to be furnished by the Game and Fish 



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Commission, which record shall remain in his 
office and be open to the inspection of the pub- 
lic at ail reasonable times. 

§ 27. Money Received From License — How 
Disposed of. The county clerk shall retain of 
the money received for each license issued 
the sum of fifteen (15) cents which cover the 
swearing of the applicant to the affidavit re- 
ferred to in this act and all other services 
under this act, and shall pay the balance to 
the State Treasurer, on the first of each 
month, which amount shall be converted into 
the Game and Fish Protection Fund and the 
said county clerk shall report to the said Game 
and Fish Commission on the first day of each 
month the number of licenses issued and the 
amount of* money remitted to the State Treas'- 
urer. 

§ 28. Owners — Landlord and Tenants May 
Hunt on Their Own Land Without License. 
All resident owners and landowners and mem- 
bers of their family may hunt upon their own 
land without license, and tenants and mem- 
bers of their family may hunt upon their 
leasehold without license, 

§ 29. License Printed on Distinctive 
Colors. The license for residents and non- 
residents shall be printed on distinctive colors. 

§ 30. License Delivered to and Returned by 
County Clerks. The Game and Fish Commis- 
sion shall deliver to each County Clerk in the 
State ten days before the first of May, in each 
^ear, as many licenses as may be required and 



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shall charge said clerk with the number issued 
to him. On the 15th day of December in each 
year and within ten days thereafter each 
County Clerk shall return to the Commission 
all unused licenses and stubs of licenses used. 
§ 31. Game and Fish Protection Fund — 
Created and Disposed of. All moneys sent to 
the State Treasurer in payment of hunting 
licenses, contraband, fines, penalties and for- 
feitures arising from the Fish and Game Laws 
of this State shall be set aside by the State 
Treasurer and shall constitute a fund known 
as the Game and Fish Protection F'und for the 
payment of the Game and Fish Commission's 
necessa-T and incidental expenses; also the 
payment of the salaries and traveling ex- 
penses of the Fish and Game Wardens, the 
Executive Agent, office assistants and other 
persons appointed or employed by said com- 
mission and for expenses incurred for any 
purpose or in consequence of this act and not 
otherwise provided for. The expense incurred 
for any purpose or in consequence of this act 
shall be limited to the amount of money in the 
Game and Fish Protection Fund and in no 
event shall the State pay any such salaries or 
expenses or be liable in any manner therefor 
except to the extent of such Game and Fish 
Protection Fund, and the State Auditor shall 
not issue any voucher or warrant for any ser- 
vices or expenses of any kind unless the money 
to pay such vouchers shall, at the time, be on 



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hand in the State Treasury to the credit of 
the Game and Fish Protection Fund. 

§ 32. False Statement as to Procuring 
License. Any person who shall make to an 
officer authorized to issue hunting license a 
false statement or change or alter his license 
in any manner shall be punished by a fine of 
not less than fifty nor more than two hundred 
($200.00) dollars to which may be added im- 
prisonment in the county jail for any period 
not exceeding thirty days'. 

§ 33. No Person Shall Hunt Without 
License. No person to whom a license is is- 
sued under the provision of this act shall be 
entitled to hunt, pursue, or kill birds, or game 
in this State, without, at the time of such 
hunting, pursuing or killing of birds or game 
he has in his possession his license ready to 
exhibit the same to any one demanding same, 
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not 
less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than 
twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. 

§ 34. Hunting Without License Prohibited. 
Any person who hunts in this State without 
first obtaining a license, permitting him or her 
to do so, or any person who lends or transfers 
his or her hunting license to another, upon 
conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not 
less than fifty nor more than two hundred 
($200.00) dollars. to which may be added im- 
prisonment in the county jail, for any period 
not exceeding thirty days, but any resident 
owner, landlord or tenant and members of 



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their families may hunt upon their own lands, 
and except further that they may likewis'e 
hunt upon the adjoining farms to theirs, or 
leasehold in season without obtaining a hunt- 
ing license as hereinbefore provided. 

§ 35. Cost of Prosecution — How Taxed. 
When an arrest for the violation of the Fish 
and Game Laws of this State is made by the 
Commission, its executive agent, or by any 
warden, or person appointed by said Commis- 
sion, sheriff or his deputies, constable or his 
deputy, or peace officer and the defendant is 
convicted there shall be taxed as cost in 
favor of such Commi5?sion, executive agent, 
warden or other person or officer making the 
arrest the same fee as constable is entitled to 
in misdemeanor cases, and if collected from 
the defendant shall be paid over to said Com- 
mission, executive agent, warden or other 
person or officer, and shall be his personal 
perquisite. No fee shall be allowed in case of 
acquittal. 

§ 36. Fines and Penalties — Distribution of. 
After payment of the percentage of fines 
allowed by the law to other public officers, 
one-half of the remainder of all fines, forfeit- 
ures and penalties collected under this act or 
any other law of this State, relating to fish or 
game shall be paid to the Executive Agent. 
Warden or other persons appointed by the 
Commission, sheriff or his deputy, constable 
or his deputy or peace officer, securing the ap- 
prehension and conviction. Such money shall 



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be paid by the court collecting the same and 
the remainder shall be forwarded to the State 
Treasurer and credited to the Pish and Game 
Protective Pund. 

§ 37. Pines, Penalties and Porfeitures — 
Disposition of. All moneys collected from 
fines, penalties and forfeitures under this act 
or any other act of this State relating to fish 
or game shall belong to the State Game and 
Pish Protection Pund, with the exception of that 
part, which under this act, belongs to the exec- 
utive agent, wardens and other persons ap- 
pointed by said commission, and public officers, 
shall be paid over by the officer authorized to 
collect said money to the State Treasurer on 
or before the first day of each month, and shall 
be credited by him to the Game and Pish Pro- 
tection Pund. The State Treasurer shall re- 
port on the first day of each month to the 
Game and Pish Commission the exact amount 
of money to the credit of the Pish and Game 
Protection Pund. 

§ 38. Pines to be Paid in Currency. All 
fines imposed under the provisions of this act 
or under any other law of this State relating 
to fish and game shall be paid in lawful money, 
that is to say, the currency of the United 
States of America. 

§ 39. Judges Special Charges as to Gan;ie 
Laws. The circuit judges shall give the Grand 
Juries, when organized, the provisions of the 
game and fish laws strictly in charge and 



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shall urge strict inquiry into infractions there- 
of. 

§ 40. Monthly Statement of Expenses. The 
Executive Agent of said Commission shall 
make out a monthly itemized account of the 
expenses of the Game and Fish Commission, 
including the moneys due himself, fish and 
game wardens, office assistants and all per- 
sons employed or appointed under this act. 
and submit the same to the Commission for 
their approval and upon their approval said 
Commission shall authorize the Auditor of 
Public Accounts to draw his warrant on the 
State Treasurer for the amount to be paid out 
of the Game and Fish Protection I'und. 

§ 41. Appropriation to Cover First Year's 
Expenses. The sum of Five Thousand Dollars 
is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the 
hands of the Treasurer, not otherwise appro- 
priated for the support and maintenance of 
the Game and Fish Commission, for the first 
year of its existence said amount shall cover 
all expenses of every kind growing out of this 
act, including the necessary expenses of the 
members of said commission, salaries of the 
Fish and Game Warden, Executive Agent and 
all persons appointed and employed under this 
act; and all expenses connected with and 
growing out of this department of the State 
Government, and said Five Thousand Dollars 
shall be repaid to the State out of the first 
moneys belonging to the Game and Fish Pro- 
tection Fund. 



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§ 42. Local and State Laws Released, All 
laws and parts of laws general, special or 
local, in conflict with the provisions of this 
act as to the Game and Fish Laws of this 
State are repealed in so far as they so con- 
flict herewith. 

Approved by the Governor, March 12, 1912. 



GAME AND BIRDS. 
Chapter 35. 

(Article IV. Subdivision 11, Ky. Statutes.) 

1250. Breaking and Entering Park or En- 
closure for Game. If any person shall wrong- 
fully break or enter a park or other enclosed 
grounds used for keeping deer, elk or buffalo, 
or hunt, drive or chase, take out, maim or kill 
any deer, elk or buffalo therein, he shall be 
fined not exceeding twenty dollars, and shall 
also pay to the person aggrieved treble the 
amount of damages sustained. 

1251. Killing or Wounding Tame Deer. Any 
pers'on who shall kill or wound a tame or pet 
deer, not his own, having a bell or collar on, 
shall be fined five dollars, and pay the owner 
three times the value of such deer. 

Copy of Acts relating to the protection of 
Game and Birds as set out in Kentucky Stat- 
utes, Carroll 1909. 



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Chapter 57. 
(Act of February 27, 1894.) 
Game and Birds. 

1939. Buck, Doe or Fawn— When Unlawful 
to Catch or Kill. It shall be unlawful for any 
person within this State to catch, kill, or pur- 
sue with such intent, any buck, doe or fawn, 
or have the same in possession after it has 
been caught or killed, between the first day 
of March and the first day of September in 
each year. 

1940. Squirrel— When Unlawful to Catch 
or Kill. No person shall catch, kill or pursue 
with such intent or have the same in posses- 
sion, after it has been caught or killed, any 
black (grey) or fox squirrel, between the first 
day of February and the fifteenth day of 
June in each year. Provided, Grey squirrels 
may be killed for the protection of crops. 
(Word in brackets stricken out by act of 
March 3, 1894; see sec. 1944a.) 

1941. Wild Goose, Teal or Wild Duck— When 
Unlawful to Catch or Kill. No person shall 
catch or kill, or pursue with such intent, or 
have the same in possession after it has been 
caught or killed, any wild goose, wood-duck, 
teal or other wild duck, between the first day 
of April and the fifteenth day of August of 
each year. 

1942. Wild Turkey— When Unlawful to 
Catch or Kill. No person shall catch, kill, or 



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pursue with sucli intent, or have the same 
In possession after it has been caught or killed 
any wild turkey, between the first day of 
February and the first day of September in 
each year. 

1943. Woodcock— When Unlawful to Catch 
or Kill. No person ishall catch, kill or pursue 
with such intent, or have the same in their 
possession after it has been caught or killed, 
any woodcock, between the first day of Feb- 
ruary and the twentieth day of June in each 
year. 

1944. Quail, Partridge or Pheasant — When 
Unlawful to Catch or Kill. No person shall 
catch, kill, or pursue with such intent, or have 
the same in their possession after it has been 
caught or killed, any quail, partridge or pheas- 
ant, between the first day of January and 
the fifteenth ■ day of November in each year. 
(See sees. 1947, 1944c.) 

1944a. Rabbits and Squirrels— Concerning. 
No person shall kill or pursue with such in-/ 
tent, or have in his possession when so killed, 
any rabbit, or squirrel between the fifteenth 
day of September and the fifteenth day of 
November in each year. Provided, any one 
may catch rabbits with dogs, or in snares. 
(This section is an act of March 18, 1904.) 

1944b. Wild Turkey, Pheasants, Grouse, 
Quail — Concerning. That it shall be unlawful 
in the State of Kentucky at any time to buy, 
sell, or expose for sale, or have in possession 
for the purpose of bartering or selling any 



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wild turkeys, pheasants, grouse, partridge or 
quail, whicii have been killed within this 
State. 

2. Trans-portation or Possession Unlawful 
—Exception as to Hunters. That it shall be 
unlawful for any person, corporation, or com- 
mon carrier to receive for transportation or 
to transport, or cause to be transported, or to 
have in possession with the intent to trans- 
port, or to secure the transportation of, within 
or without this State, any of the birds or 
fowls mentioned in section one of this act, 
which have been killed within this State. Pro- 
vided, however, That it shall not be unlawful 
for such person, corporation or common car- 
rier to transport a hunter with his game law- 
fully killed by him within this State. 

3. Each Violation Separate Offense. Each 
bird or fowl so bought, sold offered for sale, 
had in possession for sale, received for trans- 
portation, or transported contrary to the pro- 
visions of this act, shall constitute a separate 
offense. 

4. Penalty for Violation. Whoever violates 
any provisions of this act shall be fined not 
less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty- 
five dollars for a first offense, and not less 
than twenty five dollars nor more than fifty 
dollars for any subsequent offense. (This sec- 
tion is an act of March 24, 1904.) 

1944c. 1. • Pheasants— Concerning— Penalty. 
That it shall be unlawful by any means, what- 
ever, to catch, kill, or pursue with intent to 



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kill, or have same in possession after they 
have been so caught or killed, any English 
ring-neck, Mongolian or Chinese pheasant; 
Provided nothing herein shall be construed to 
prevent the importation of such birds into 
this Commonwealth and the keeping of same 
in confinement for the purpose of raising, 
propogating and distributing them in this 
Commonwealth. 

Any person violating any of the provisions 
of this act shall, upon conviction, be punished 
by a fine of not less than $25.00 nor more 
than $100.00, and each of said birds so pur- 
sued, caught, killed or had in possession shall 
constitute a separate offense. (This section is 
an act of March 16, 1906.) (And see sec. 1944.) 

1945. Dove — When Unlawful to Catch or 
Kill. No person shall catch, kill, or pursue 
with such intent, or have in possession after 
it has been caught or killed, any dove, be- 
tween the first day of February and the first 
day of August in each year. 

1946. Song or Insectivorous Birds — When 
Unlawful to Catch or Kill. No person shall 
at any time catch, kill, or pursue with such 
intent, or have in possession after the same 
has been caught or killed, any thrush, 
meadow-lark, finch, martin, s'wallow, wood- 
pecker, flicker, oriole, red-bird, tanager, cat- 
bird, blue-bird or other song or insectivorous 
bird, except where the same shall be destruc- 
tive to the fruit or grain crops. 

1947. Quail, Partridge or Pheasant. No 



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person shall at any time catcli or kill, or take 
by means of net, trap, box or snare, or have 
in possession after having been so caught, 
killed or taken any quail, partridge or pheas- 
ant. See sec. 1944. 

1948. Nests or Eggs of Wild Birds— When 
Unlawful to Destroy. No person shall rob or 
destroy the nests or eggs of any wild bird 
whatever, save only those of a predatory na- 
ture, and destructive to other birds or fowls. 

1949. Penalty for Violation of Nine Pre- 
ceding Sections. Any person guilty of violat- 
ing any of the provisions of either of the pre- 
ceding sections shall be fined for each offense 
not less than five nor more than twenty-five 
dollars. 

1950. Possession Within Prohibited Time 
— Evidence of Guilt. The possession of any 
of the animals or birds intended to be pro- 
tected by this law within the periods for 
which their killing or pursuit is hereby pro- 
hibited shall be prima facie evidence that the 
said animal or bird was unlawfully caught or 
killed, and the possession thereof unlawful. 

1951. Selling Within Prohibited Time- 
Penalty For. Any person exposing for sale 
any of the animals or birds intended to be pro- 
tected by this law within the periods for 
which the taking or killing thereof is hereby 
prohibited shall, for each animal or bird so 
exposed for sale, be subject to the same pen- 
alty as herein provided for the unlawful kill- 
ing or taking of such animal or bird. 



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1952. Each Offense Separate and Punish- 
able — Joinder of Offenses. The unlawful kill- 
ing, catching or possession of each and every- 
one of the animals or birds intended to be pro- 
tected by this law shall constitute a separate 
and distinct offense, and shall be punished ac- 
cordingly, and two or more offenses may be 
joined, in the same warrant or indictment 
therefor; and the person so offending, if con- 
victed, shall be fined for each offense, and 
fifty per centum of said fine shall be paid to 
the informer. 

1953. Magistrates and Judges — Duty and 
Powers of. Any county judge, justice of the 
peace, or police or other magistrate, upon re- 
ceiving sufficient proof by affidavits that any 
of the provisions of this chapter have been 
violated by any person being temporarily 
within his jurisdiction, but not residing there- 
in permanently, or by any person whose name 
or residence is unknown, is hereby authorized 
and required to issue his warrant for the ar- 
rest of such person, and cause him to be held 
to bail to answer the charges against him; 
and any such justice or magistrate, upon re- 
ceiving proof or having reasonable grounds to 
believe that any game mentioned in this chap- 
ter is concealed during any of the periods for 
which the possession thereof is prohibited, 
shall issue his search-warrant, and cause 
search to be made in any house, market, boat, 
box, package, car or other place, and shall 



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cause the arrest and trial of any person in 
whose pos'session such game is found. 

1954. Mayors tind Market-Masters — Penal- 
ty of Officer Failing to do Duty. It is hereby 
made the duty of the several mayors of the 
several cities and towns within the Common- 
I wealth to require their respective police or 
constabulary force, and it is hereby made 
their duty, as well as the duty of all market- 
masters' or clerks of markets of any cities or 
towns to diligently search out and arrest or 
have arrested, as for a misdemeanor, all per- 
I sons violating the provisions of this chapter 
by having any game mentioned herein unlaw- 
fully in their possession, or offering the s'ame 
for sale during any of the periods during 
which the killing of such game is prohibited. 
And any officer whose duty be to enforce the 
' provisions of this chapter, who shall fail or 
i refuse, upon sufficient information, to dis- 
j charge the duties imposed upon him by this 
I chapter, shall be held guilty of misfeasance in 
I office, and shall, on conviction thereof, be 
j punished by fine of not less than twenty nor 
i more than fifty dollars for each offense. Any 
I act conflicting or inconsistent with this act or 
amendment is hereby repealed. 

1954a. 1. Unlawful to Kill, Purchase or 
Have Poss'ession of Birds, or Plumage of Ex- 
cept Game Girds. That no person shall within 
the State of Kentucky kill, catch or have in 
\ his possession living or dead, any wild bird 
other than a game bird, or purchase, offer or 



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expose for sale, transport or ship within or 
without the State, any such wild bird after it 
has been killed or caught except as permitted 
by this act. No part of the plumage, skin or 
body of any bird protected by this section 
shall be sold or had in possession for sale. 
For the purposes of this act the following 
only shall be considered game birds: The 
Anatidae, commonly known as swans, geese, 
brant, and river and sea ducks; the Rallidae, 
commonly known as rails, coots, mud-hens, 
and gallinules; the Limicolae, commonly 
known as shore birds, plovers, surf birds, . 
snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tattlers and cur- 
lews; the Gallinae, commonly known as wild 
turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, 
partridges and quails, and the species of Col- 
umbidae, commonly known as mourning doves. 

2. Nests or Eggs of Birds and Game — Un- 
lawful to Destroy. No person shall within the 
State of Kentucky, take or needlessly destroy 
the nest ' or the eggs of any wild bird other 
than a game bird, or have such nests or eggs 
in his or her possession, except as permitted 
by this act. 

3. Penalty for Violating This Act. Any 
person violating any of the provisions of this 
act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
shall be fined five dollars for each bird living 
or dead, or part of bird, or nest or set of eggs 
or part thereof, possessed in violation of this 
act; or shall be imprisoned not less than five 
nor more than thirty days for each offense; 



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or shall be subject to both such fine and im- 
prisonment at the discretion of the court. 

4. Persons Exempt From This Act. Sec- 
tions 1, 2 and 3 of this act ehall not apply to 
any person holding a certificate giving Ihe 
right to take birds, their nests or eggs for 
scientific purposes', as provided for in section 
5 of this act. 

5. Certificate of Exemption — Application 
For. Certificates may be granted by any in- 
corporated society of natural history in the 
State, through such persons or officers as said 
society may designate, to any properly ac- 
credited person of the age of fifteen or up- 
ward; permitting the holder thereof to collect 
birds, their nests or eggs, for strictly scien- 
tific purposes only. In order to obtain such 
certificate the applicant for the same must 
present to the person or persons having the 
power to grant such certificates written testi- 
monials from two well known scientific men, 
certifying to the good character and fitness of 
said applicant to be intrusted with such privi- 
lege; must pay to such person or officers one 
dollar to defray the necessary expenses at- 
tending the granting of such certificates, and 
must file with said persons or officers, a 
properly executed bond, in the sum of two 
hundred dollars, signed by two responsible 
citizens of the State as securities. On proof 
that the holder of such certificates has killed 
any bird, or taken the nest or eggs of any 
bird, for other than scientific purposes, this 



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bond shall be forfeited to the State, and the 
certificate become void, and said holder shall 
be further subject for each such offense to 
the penalties provided therefor in section 3 
of this act. 

6. Certificates Not Transferable— Time of. 
The certificates authorized by this act shall 
be in force only during the calendar year in 
which issued and shall not be transferable. 

7. Birds Not Protected. The English or 
European house sparrow, great horned owl, 
sharp-skinned hawk, Cooper's hawk, crow and 
crow blackbird are not included among the 
birds protected by this act. 

8. Birds Injuring Fruit or Crops. Nothing 
in this act shall prevent any citizen of the 
State of Kentucky from destroying birds 
found injuring fruit or crops on his premises; 
provided, that such birds when killed shall 
not be sold or shipped out of the State. 

9. Repealing Clause. All acts or parts of 
acts inconsistent with the provisions of this 
act are hereby repealed. This section is an 
act of March 21, 1902; the numbers of the 
sub-sections are the numbers of the act.) 

1954b. 1. Non-resident Hunters to Have 
License. It siiall be unlawful for any person 
who is a non-resident of the State of Ken- 
tucky to hunt anywhere within the State of 
Kentucky any of the wild animals, fowls, or 
birds that are protected during any part of the 
year without procuring a license to do so, and 



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then only during the respective periods of the 
year when it shall be lawful to do so. 

2. License — How Obtained. Said license 
shall be procured in the following manner, to- 
wit: 

The applicant shall fill out a blank applica- 
tion to be furnished by the clerk of the county 
court of any county of the State of Kentucky, 
stating the name, age, occupation and place 
of residence of the applicant, which applica- 
tion shall be sworn to before some person au- 
thorized to administer oaths in the State of 
Kentucky, or in the State in which the appli- 
cant resides. Upon the presentation of such 
application to the clerk of the county court 
of any county in the State of. Kentucky, such 
clerk shall issue applicant a license to hunt 
in any county in the State of Kentucky. 

FISH. 

Copy of Acts Relating to Protection of Fish 
as Set Out in Kentucky Statutes, Carroll 1909. 

1252. Injuring F'ish Pond — Fishing in Pri- 
vate Pond Without Leave. If any person shall 
break or cut down, cut out or destroy any 
head or dam of any pool, pond, moat, stew, 
stagnet or pit, wherein fish are or shall be 
put or stored by the owner or person in pos- 
session thereof, or shall wrongfully and with- 
out leave fish in any of the places above enu- 
merated, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty 
dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding three 



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months, or both, and pay the party aggrieved 
treble the damages sustained. 

1253. Poisoning or Dynamiting Fish 
Stream, Pond or Pool. If any person put, or 
cause to be put, in any stream, dam, pool or 
pond any liquid, berries, powders, medicine or 
other thing, or explode, or cause to be ex- 
ploded, dynamite or any other substance, 
whereby fish, great or small, are or may be 
sickened, intoxicated or killed, or the water 
rendered unfit for use, or stench be produced, 
he shall be fined not less than ten nor more 
than one hundred dollars, and imprisoned in 
the county jail not less than thirty days nor 
more than six months, in the discretion of thq 
jury, for each offense. 

1259. Hunting or Fishing on Another's 
Land. Any person who shall enter upon the 
inclosed lands of another for the purpose of 
shooting, hunting or fishing, without the con- 
sent of the owner or occupant of said lands, 
shall be fined not less than five nor more 
than twenty-five dollars. 

1392a. 1. Fish Ladders or Roads to be Con- 
structed Across. All persons owning dams 
constructed across any stream in this Com- 
monwealth, where the annual tides in said 
streams are not sufficiently high to admit the 
passage of fish over said dams, shall be re- 
quired to erect and maintain over said dams, 
during the months of April, May and June of 
each year fish ladders or roads, constructed 



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in such manner as to allow the passage of 
fish over said dams. 

2. Dams Act Does Not Apply To. This act 
shall not apply to locks and dams constructed 
across large rivers to facilitate navigation. 

3. Penalty For Violating. Any person vio- 
lating the provisions of this act shall, upon 
conviction thereof, be fined not less than 
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred 
dollars. (This section is an act of March 21, 
1906.) 

1392b. Penalty For Obstructing Streams by 
Dams. That it shall be unlawful for any per- 
son to obstruct any stream or erect any dams 
below ten miles from the head of said streams 
In this Commonwealth, which is navigable for 
the running of push boats', floating of saw 
logs, staves or ties, by erecting any dams or 
other obstruction, or refusing to remove same, 
which have heretofore been erected not in ac- 
cordance with the statutes of this Common- 
wealth; and any person so offending shall, 
upon conviction, be fined not less' than fifty 
dollars and not more than five hundred dollars 
for each offense. (This section is an act of 
March 21, 1906.) 



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Chapter 53. 

(Acts of 1893 and 1894.) 

Fish. 

(Act of 1893, Sees. 1894-98; act of 1894, sees. 
1899-1905.) 

1894. Nets or Contrivances Preventing 
Fish Passing — Penalty For Using. That it 
shall be unlawful for any person or persons 
to have located in any of the running waters 
of this State any wing-net, set-net, gill or 
trammel-net, or any other contrivance, for the 
purpofie of catching fish, or that will material- 
ly hinder the passage of fish in such waters. 
Such person or persons so obstructing the 
waters for any of the above named purposes 
by any of the above named methods shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 
thereof before any court of competent juris- 
diction, shall be fined not less than ten dol- 
lar's nor more than twenty-five dollars for 
each offense. (See sec. 1899.) (Dams to be ar- 
ranged to permit passage of 1392a.) 

1895. Poisonous Drugs or Bait — Penalty 
for Using. That any person or persons who 
shall place or cause to be placed in any of 
the waters of this State any drug, poisonous 
substance or medicated bait, with intent 
thereby to injure, poison or catch fish, shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on convic- 
tion thereof, shall be fined not less than 



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twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for 
eacli offense. (See sec. 1900.) 

189G. Dynamite or Explosive Agent — Penal- 
ty for Using. That any person or persons 
who shall place or cause to be placed in any 
of the waters of this State any dynamite or 
explosive agent, with intent thereby to injure 
or catch fish, shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be 
fined not less than fifty dollars nor more 
than one hundred dollars for each offense; 
and, on failure to pay a fine as fixed by either 
section 1894, 1895, 1896, shall he confined in 
the county jail, workhouse or placed at labor 
on any of the public works of said county for 
a length of time not exceeding one day for 
every two dollars of said fine. (See sec. 1900.) 

1897. Jurisdiction of Courts. That the cir- 
cuit courts of the respective counties of this 
State, and any justice of the peace of the 
county wherein any of the offenses herein 
enumerated are committed, shall have juris- 
diction to try such offenses and assess fines 
for same. (See sec. 1902.) 

1898. Judge to Charge Grand Jury Con- 
cerning. That it shall be the duty of the judge 
in all circuit courts of the respective counties 
of the State to give special charge of this act 
to each grand jury of said court. (See sec. 
1903.) • 

1899. Seining, Netting or Trapping Pro- 
hibited — Penalty. That it shall be unlawful 
for any person or persons to catch or destroy 



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fish in any of the running waters, lakes or 
ponds, other than private ponds of this State, 
by means of a seine, net, other than a dip- 
net, drag or trap, except streams forming a 
boundary line between this and other States 
(and the lakes' and ponds adjacent thereto.) 
Anyone thus offending shall, on conviction, be 
fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dol- 
lars nor more than fifty dollars for each of- 
fense, and cost of prosecution. (Words in 
brackets inserted by act of March 21, 1896.) 

1900. Drugs or Explosives in Water Pro- 
hibited — Penalty. That any person or persons 
who shall place, or cause to be placed, in any 
of the running waters designated in section 
1899, any drug, injurious substance, medicated 
bait, or any dynamite or other explosive 
agent, with intent to injure, poison or catch 
fish, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on 
conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than 
fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dol- 
lars for each offense and cost of prosecution. 
(See sec. 1253.) 

1901. Penalty— Who Entitled To. That 
sixty per centum of all the fines collected for 
violations of the provisions of this act shall 
be paid into the treasury of the county in 
which such fines are imposed, the remaining 
forty per centum to be paid to the civil offi- 
cer securing the apprehension and conviction. 

1902. Jurisdiction of Courts. That the cir- 
cuit courts of the respective counties of the 



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State, wherein any of the offenses herein 
enumerated are committed, shall have exclu- 
sive jurisdiction to indict, try and punish such 
offenders. 

1903. Charge to Grand Jury. That it shall 
be the duty of the judge in all circuit courts 
of the respective counties of the State to give 
this act specially in charge to each grand 
jury of said court. 

1904. Minnows May Be Caught. That this 
act shall not be construed to prevent any 
person from using minnow seines less than 
ten feet in length and four in depth to catch 
minnows for bait or trot-lines or pole and 
line to catch fish. 

1905. Repealing Clause. That acts or parts 
of acts heretofore passed in conflict with this 
act are hereby repealed. 

Chapter 68. 

An Act to amend Section 1896 of the Ken- 
tucky Statutes, relating to the destruction of 
fish by guns loaded with steel balls and cop- 
per jackets. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 

1. That Section 1896 of the Kentucky Stat- 
utes, relating to dynamiting fish, be, and it 
is hereby, amended so as to read as follows, 
to- wit: 

1896. Dynamiting or Explosive Agent — 
Penalty for Using. That any person or per- 



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sons who shall place or cause to be placed in 
any of the waters of this State or shall aid 
or assist in so doing, any dynamite or ex- 
plosive agent, or who shall shoot into any of 
the waters of this State with a gun or pistol 
loaded , with steel balls, copper jackets or 
other hard substance other than an ordinary 
leaden ball, with intent thereby to kill, in- 
jure, or catch fish, shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be 
fined not less than, fifty dollars nor more 
than one hundred dollars for each offense; 
and on failure to pay a fine as fixed by either 
Section 1894, 1895 or 1896, shall be confined 
in the county jail, workhouse or placed at 
labor upon any of the public works of said 
county for a length of time not exceeding one 
day for every two dollars of said fine. 

Approved March 22, 1910. 



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